1.
A cabinet is a combining committee, a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens, the legislative part of the state to the executive part of the state. In its origin it belongs to the one, in its functions it belongs to the other.
Walter Bagehot
2.
It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen
Frank McCourt
4.
The only difference between resigning and resigning is a hyphen.
Tim McCarver
5.
One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
Winston Churchill
6.
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.
Woodrow Wilson
7.
There are some men who in a fifty-fifty proposition insist on getting the hyphen too.
Laurence J. Peter
8.
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
Pamela Frankau